People simply do not understand things at the top of the political/business world. None of this was about what he did, falsified what, or expensed whatever. This was about someone else wanting him out. Someone powerful wants the job, or doesn't like the guy, period.
People at this level are in constant competition with others to keep their jobs, and have to force others out. If you make yourself politically weak by doing some jackoff thing like this, it makes it easier to take you out. Here, someone did. They managed to overlook the data center for his kids school, for chrissake. He just had more juice at that time.
Agree completely. On some issues I am quite liberal...this idea is not only dumb technically (we have certs/crypto already, and that is good enough; witness massive expansion of e-commerce), but it is also political suicide.
This is so bad I wonder if the Obama administration is even proposing it, and not a right wing smear job.
Uh, yes we do. The BOP failed because the gasket that was in it sheared off and came back up the pipe. Despite this, BP executives told them to push on and not worry about it because they were already behind.
"...during a test, they closed the gasket. But while it was shut tight, a crewman on deck accidentally nudged a joystick, applying hundreds of thousands of pounds of force, and moving 15 feet of drill pipe through the closed blowout preventer. Later, a man monitoring drilling fluid rising to the top made a troubling find.
"He discovered chunks of rubber in the drilling fluid. He thought it was important enough to gather this double handful of chunks of rubber and bring them into the driller shack. I recall asking the supervisor if this was out of the ordinary. And he says, 'Oh, it's no big deal.' And I thought, 'How can it be not a big deal? There's chunks of our seal is now missing,'"
And there you have it. They were being pushed too hard, and made huge mistakes. BP needs to pay dearly for this, maybe even be put out of business completely, so that all the other companies can witness what happens to them if they do the same thing.
Let them factor that in to their actuarial tables..a big fat "closed for business" if a mistake like this takes place.
You said it. They failed to test. I design/run datacenters, and have had exactly this kind of thing happen recently. No outage, hardly anyone even noticed. My most critical stuff runs active/active out of multiple data centers...you could nuke one of them and everything would still be up.
I'm actually a little blown away that the all powerful Amazon could possibly let this kind of thing happen. They are supposed to be pro team, a power failure is high school ball.
"All government did was allow other companies into established Central Offices so they could drop DSL equipment at the end of the copper lines."
This HUGE step, which would have completely stopped the internet in its tracks if it hadn't happened, was because of direct intervention by the government.
"Zero tolerance is for things like, violence, gun possesion, possesion of drugs, harassment, cheating, etc, etc."
You are doing exactly what parent is criticizing, and for exactly the same reason. Violence (self defense), gun possession (BB Gun, toys), possession of drugs (OTC, prescription, etc), harassment (online? name calling?), cheating (plagiarism, failed footnote).
I put forth that "everyone is happy with an iPhone" until they realize what it can do when it is jailbroken. Then they are not so happy. In my case its even worse, a factory iPhone is practically unusable as it can't vibrate continuously and intensely and can't put my schedule on its lock screen.
I have an iPhone that is hacked to within and inch of its life. I will be replacing it with a Droid when my contract is up, as I am tired of playing cat and mouse with jailbreaks. I'm sure there will eventually be more like me.
Why yes, yes it is. However, the crowed usually gets something of value too, a la Google. You get your search results, they get to target advertising and gather statistics on you.
FYI, the Euro is tanking against the dollar right now, as investor's fear of a crash of the Euro due to the PIGS. And that is against an already heavily devalued dollar. Now would not be a good time to deny European banks access to the American market. Your plan would pretty much ensure the demise of the Euro as European countries end up pulling out of the Eurozone so they don't have to bail out the PIGS. If they don't figure out some way to devalue the Euro even further for the countries that are in deep trouble (Greece), people are going to have to start cleaning the crap off the walls....
And your inane argument contends that the current way is the best way. They are out whoring themselves because they need money to win. If they didn't have to compete against others who had massive war chests then they wouldn't need the money. Then they would need to go out and whore themselves to get VOTES, which is exactly what I want them to do.
Your argument is that if you flood them with money, well, then they won't have to go out and get it. Well yes, but now who are they whores to? Who opened the flood gates? Yes, the corporations, not the people.
Since when did a corporation take a political stand on anything, endorsing anything? Corporations will contribute bucket loads of cash to EVERYONE, and in so control the entire process. Your simplistic thinking is almost cute...this isn't about one political ideology against another, its about corporations running things vs. the people. Democrats, republicans, libertarians, progressives, teabaggers, gays, right/left/up..it doesn't mean much now and especially won't mean anything in the future. It will be us (the people) against them (the corporations).
SysRq is the print screen button, and I use it all of the time too. It is cut and paste for me, alt-printscreen (or control-printscreen) then shift-printscreen. Fastest screen paste in the west....
I would like to know where my damages are. How can Microsoft sell a product with a feature, lose an intellectual property case, then take the feature out of my copy by way of "patch". Didn't I pay for that feature? Microsoft has done this before, and I didn't get a refund. How can they keep doing this without eventually even acknowledging that they are removing features from *my* product, not *their* product?
Ha! An old schooler. I remember back then I was examining some of this work. Everyone started running WINS servers on the net, trying to figure out how to scale and secure everything.
It was fun, but man, there were so many problems in the modern era of the hacking mafia I don't see any way that it could have worked. Perhaps if NetBIOS had been improved at the rate the other protocols were over the same time, it could have happened...
Keep in mind that Microsoft held on to NetBIOS like a rabid badger until the very end, and even tried to crush your Samba program like a bug (as I am sure you are aware). I think I'm happier using protocols on the net that Microsoft has little control over.
Actually, not even close. You have made a mistake rarely anyone makes. Ethernet is layer 2. TCP/IP and IPX/SPX and NetBEUI is layer 3(even though NetBEUI isn't routable). NetBIOS is a layer 5 up protocol, but really doesn't fit will in the OSI model at all because technically it isn't a network protocol.
And I don't know what the hell everyone is talking about "quit using" NetBIOS or whatever, practically every modern MS application uses it extensively.
This hack falls firmly within the "duh" category. The next time I go into a coffee shop and start talking SQL or native MS Exchange in the clear to something I'll make sure I have my guard up.
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People simply do not understand things at the top of the political/business world. None of this was about what he did, falsified what, or expensed whatever. This was about someone else wanting him out. Someone powerful wants the job, or doesn't like the guy, period.
People at this level are in constant competition with others to keep their jobs, and have to force others out. If you make yourself politically weak by doing some jackoff thing like this, it makes it easier to take you out. Here, someone did. They managed to overlook the data center for his kids school, for chrissake. He just had more juice at that time.
Agree completely. On some issues I am quite liberal...this idea is not only dumb technically (we have certs/crypto already, and that is good enough; witness massive expansion of e-commerce), but it is also political suicide.
This is so bad I wonder if the Obama administration is even proposing it, and not a right wing smear job.
Dumb dumb dumb.
Yes it does...
Uh, yes we do. The BOP failed because the gasket that was in it sheared off and came back up the pipe. Despite this, BP executives told them to push on and not worry about it because they were already behind.
"...during a test, they closed the gasket. But while it was shut tight, a crewman on deck accidentally nudged a joystick, applying hundreds of thousands of pounds of force, and moving 15 feet of drill pipe through the closed blowout preventer. Later, a man monitoring drilling fluid rising to the top made a troubling find.
"He discovered chunks of rubber in the drilling fluid. He thought it was important enough to gather this double handful of chunks of rubber and bring them into the driller shack. I recall asking the supervisor if this was out of the ordinary. And he says, 'Oh, it's no big deal.' And I thought, 'How can it be not a big deal? There's chunks of our seal is now missing,'"
And there you have it. They were being pushed too hard, and made huge mistakes. BP needs to pay dearly for this, maybe even be put out of business completely, so that all the other companies can witness what happens to them if they do the same thing.
Let them factor that in to their actuarial tables..a big fat "closed for business" if a mistake like this takes place.
You said it. They failed to test. I design/run datacenters, and have had exactly this kind of thing happen recently. No outage, hardly anyone even noticed. My most critical stuff runs active/active out of multiple data centers...you could nuke one of them and everything would still be up.
I'm actually a little blown away that the all powerful Amazon could possibly let this kind of thing happen. They are supposed to be pro team, a power failure is high school ball.
Reasonable policies managed with good judgment are exactly what zero tolerance rules are meant to circumvent, almost by definition.
"All government did was allow other companies into established Central Offices so they could drop DSL equipment at the end of the copper lines."
This HUGE step, which would have completely stopped the internet in its tracks if it hadn't happened, was because of direct intervention by the government.
"Zero tolerance is for things like, violence, gun possesion, possesion of drugs, harassment, cheating, etc, etc."
You are doing exactly what parent is criticizing, and for exactly the same reason. Violence (self defense), gun possession (BB Gun, toys), possession of drugs (OTC, prescription, etc), harassment (online? name calling?), cheating (plagiarism, failed footnote).
You really, really need to rethink.
I put forth that "everyone is happy with an iPhone" until they realize what it can do when it is jailbroken. Then they are not so happy. In my case its even worse, a factory iPhone is practically unusable as it can't vibrate continuously and intensely and can't put my schedule on its lock screen.
I have an iPhone that is hacked to within and inch of its life. I will be replacing it with a Droid when my contract is up, as I am tired of playing cat and mouse with jailbreaks. I'm sure there will eventually be more like me.
4.1 was the first version you could get a CNA for...before that it was only CNE. Your memory is going as you get old...
Cadillacs in this case being analogous to a really good health care system, which we don't have. High costs for middling care is not a good thing.
Being 37th and paying like we're number one...well, at least we're number one at something....
Why yes, yes it is. However, the crowed usually gets something of value too, a la Google. You get your search results, they get to target advertising and gather statistics on you.
An AS400 is a mid-range, not a mainframe...
FYI, the Euro is tanking against the dollar right now, as investor's fear of a crash of the Euro due to the PIGS. And that is against an already heavily devalued dollar. Now would not be a good time to deny European banks access to the American market. Your plan would pretty much ensure the demise of the Euro as European countries end up pulling out of the Eurozone so they don't have to bail out the PIGS. If they don't figure out some way to devalue the Euro even further for the countries that are in deep trouble (Greece), people are going to have to start cleaning the crap off the walls....
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
Not likely.
Why wouldn't it, the iPhone does.
And your inane argument contends that the current way is the best way. They are out whoring themselves because they need money to win. If they didn't have to compete against others who had massive war chests then they wouldn't need the money. Then they would need to go out and whore themselves to get VOTES, which is exactly what I want them to do.
Your argument is that if you flood them with money, well, then they won't have to go out and get it. Well yes, but now who are they whores to? Who opened the flood gates? Yes, the corporations, not the people.
Since when did a corporation take a political stand on anything, endorsing anything? Corporations will contribute bucket loads of cash to EVERYONE, and in so control the entire process. Your simplistic thinking is almost cute...this isn't about one political ideology against another, its about corporations running things vs. the people. Democrats, republicans, libertarians, progressives, teabaggers, gays, right/left/up..it doesn't mean much now and especially won't mean anything in the future. It will be us (the people) against them (the corporations).
SysRq is the print screen button, and I use it all of the time too. It is cut and paste for me, alt-printscreen (or control-printscreen) then shift-printscreen. Fastest screen paste in the west....
I would like to know where my damages are. How can Microsoft sell a product with a feature, lose an intellectual property case, then take the feature out of my copy by way of "patch". Didn't I pay for that feature? Microsoft has done this before, and I didn't get a refund. How can they keep doing this without eventually even acknowledging that they are removing features from *my* product, not *their* product?
Well, just try disabling NetBIOS in a large enterprise. See how much stuff breaks...your first big-time IT job just became your last.
Ha! An old schooler. I remember back then I was examining some of this work. Everyone started running WINS servers on the net, trying to figure out how to scale and secure everything. It was fun, but man, there were so many problems in the modern era of the hacking mafia I don't see any way that it could have worked. Perhaps if NetBIOS had been improved at the rate the other protocols were over the same time, it could have happened... Keep in mind that Microsoft held on to NetBIOS like a rabid badger until the very end, and even tried to crush your Samba program like a bug (as I am sure you are aware). I think I'm happier using protocols on the net that Microsoft has little control over.
Actually, not even close. You have made a mistake rarely anyone makes. Ethernet is layer 2. TCP/IP and IPX/SPX and NetBEUI is layer 3(even though NetBEUI isn't routable). NetBIOS is a layer 5 up protocol, but really doesn't fit will in the OSI model at all because technically it isn't a network protocol.
And I don't know what the hell everyone is talking about "quit using" NetBIOS or whatever, practically every modern MS application uses it extensively.
This hack falls firmly within the "duh" category. The next time I go into a coffee shop and start talking SQL or native MS Exchange in the clear to something I'll make sure I have my guard up.
It is a very tough feature to code however, just ask the guys who failed to add it to the iphone for several years...
You would have the same outcome if racing 787's was the original objective.
One is never, ever required to speak to a police officer, ever. In fact, in most all situations, you are far better off if you don't.
I don't know about MA law, but if they have that one, it is unconstitutional.